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Viali Di Circonvallazione
The Viali di Circonvallazione are a series of 6-lane boulevards surrounding the north part of the historic centre of Florence, historic centre of Florence. History The boulevards follow the outline of the ancient walls of Florence, that were demolished in 1865 according to Giuseppe Poggi's project to make Florence, then the capital of Italy, a modern city with wide boulevards inspired by those of Paris. Around the former gates of the city, squares and palaces were created. Today Today the viali di Circonvallazione are the main arterial street of Florence for the traffic from west to east. The route (from west) starting from ''Ponte alla Vittoria'' bridge is: *Viale Fratelli Rosselli (with Torre della Serpe and Leopolda Station) *Piazzale of Porta al Prato *Viale Filippo Strozzi (around the Fortezza da Basso) *Viale Spartaco Lavagnini *Piazza della Libertà (Florence), Piazza della Libertà (with Porta San Gallo, Florence, Porta San Gallo, Triumphal Arch of the Lorraine, Florence ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Viale may refer to: * Viale (surname), an Italian surname Places * Viale, Entre Ríos, Argentina * Viale, Piedmont, Asti, Italy * Viale is Italian for ''boulevard''. Some notable roads whose names use that word include: ** Viale Aventino, Rome, Italy ** Viale Enrico Forlanini, Milan, Italy ** Viale Lazio, Palermo, Italy, location of the Viale Lazio massacre ** Viale Luigi Borri, Varese, Italy ** Viale Luigi Majno, Milan, Italy ** Viale Pasubio, Milan, Italy Other * Viale 35 hp The Viale 35 hp was a five-cylinder, air-cooled, radial engine for aircraft use designed and built in France by the Italian engine designer Spirito Mario Viale, that was first run around 1910. It developed 35 horsepower (26 kW). Three- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boulevard
A boulevard is a type of broad avenue planted with rows of trees, or in parts of North America, any urban highway or wide road in a commercial district. In Europe, boulevards were originally circumferential roads following the line of former city walls. In North American usage, boulevards may be wide, multi-lane thoroughfares divided with only a central median. Etymology The word ''boulevard'' is borrowed from French. In France, it originally meant the flat surface of a rampart, and later a promenade taking the place of a demolished fortification. It is a borrowing from the Dutch word ' ' bulwark'. Notable examples Asia Azerbaijan *Baku Boulevard Bangladesh *Manik Mia Avenue Cambodia *Norodom Boulevard *Monivong Boulevard *Sihanouk Boulevard India * M G Road * Anna Salai * Indira Gandhi Sarani * Marine Drive * Krishnaraja Boulevard * Rajpath * Necklace Road * Mahatma Gandhi Road * Foreshore Road Indonesia * Jalan Jenderal Sudirman *Jalan M.H. Thamrin * Jalan Jen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Historic Centre Of Florence
The historic centre of Florence is part of quartiere 1 of the Italian city of Florence. This quarter was named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1982. Built on the site of an Etruscan settlement, Florence, the symbol of the Renaissance, rose to economic and cultural pre-eminence under the Medici in the 15th and 16th centuries. Its 600 years of extraordinary artistic activity can be seen above all in the 13th-century cathedral (Santa Maria del Fiore), the Church of Santa Croce, the Uffizi and the Pitti Palace, the work of great masters such as Giotto, Filippo Brunelleschi, Sandro Botticelli and Michelangelo. Aspect Closed inside the avenues traced on the old medieval walls, the historic centre of Florence collects the city's most important cultural heritage sites. Delimited by the 14th century wall circuit, built thanks to the economic and commercial power reached at the time, knew its maximum splendor in the following two centuries. Spiritual center of the city is Piazza del ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florence
Florence ( ; ) is the capital city of the Italy, Italian region of Tuscany. It is also the most populated city in Tuscany, with 362,353 inhabitants, and 989,460 in Metropolitan City of Florence, its metropolitan province as of 2025. Florence was a centre of Middle Ages, medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of that era. It is considered by many academics to have been the birthplace of the Renaissance, becoming a major artistic, cultural, commercial, political, economic and financial center. During this time, Florence rose to a position of enormous influence in Italy, Europe, and beyond. Its turbulent political history includes periods of rule by the powerful House of Medici, Medici family and numerous religious and republican revolutions. From 1865 to 1871 the city served as the capital of the Kingdom of Italy. The Florentine dialect forms the base of Italian language, standard Italian and it became the language of culture throughout Italy due to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuseppe Poggi
Giuseppe Poggi (3 April 1811 – 19 March 1901) was an Italian architect, mainly active in Florence. From 1864 he designed the city's urban renovation, which included the demolition of the walls, and the creation of the Viali di Circonvallazione to encircle the city. At the sites of the former gates of the city, he created scenographic squares, such as the Piazza Cesare Beccaria and the Piazza della Libertà. He also designed the viale dei Colli, a panoramic walk ending with the Piazzale Michelangelo. Biography Early career A native of Florence, he was articled (1828–35) to the architect and engineer Bartolommeo Silvestri (1781–1851). From 1835 to 1838 he practised engineering, but in the late 1830s he took up architecture. Poggi received numerous commissions from the city's upper bourgeoisie for renovations of palaces and gardens. His first commission was the remodelling (1839) of the villa of Conte Giuseppe Archinto alle Forbici in the hills between Florence and Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land border, as well as List of islands of Italy, nearly 800 islands, notably Sicily and Sardinia. Italy shares land borders with France to the west; Switzerland and Austria to the north; Slovenia to the east; and the two enclaves of Vatican City and San Marino. It is the List of European countries by area, tenth-largest country in Europe by area, covering , and the third-most populous member state of the European Union, with nearly 59 million inhabitants. Italy's capital and List of cities in Italy, largest city is Rome; other major cities include Milan, Naples, Turin, Palermo, Bologna, Florence, Genoa, and Venice. The history of Italy goes back to numerous List of ancient peoples of Italy, Italic peoples—notably including the ancient Romans, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piazza Della Libertà (Florence)
Piazza della Libertà, meaning "Freedom/Liberty Square", may refer to the following places in Italy: * Piazza della Libertà, Florence * Piazza della Libertà, Rome * Piazza della Libertà, San Marino * Piazza Libertà, Udine, also known as ''Piazza della Libertà'' * A piazza in Bagnacavallo, Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna * A piazza in Civitanova Marche#Ducal Palace (Palazzo Cesarini-Sforza), Civitanova Marche, Macerata, Marche * A piazza in Macerata#Main sights, Macerata, Macerata, Marche * A piazza in Sorbolo, Parma, Emilia-Romagna {{Geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porta San Gallo, Florence
Porta can refer to: People * Porta (rapper) (born 1988), stagename of Christian Jiménez Bundo, a Spanish rap singer * Porta (surname), surname Places * La Porta, a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica * Porta (Barcelona) a neighbourhood of Barcelona, Spain * Porta, Pyrénées-Orientales, a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France * Porta, Thessaly, a pass and settlement in Thessaly, central Greece * Porta, Xanthi, a district of Xanthi in Thrace, northeastern Greece * ''Porta'', the Hungarian name for Poarta village, Bran Commune, Braşov County, Romania * Porta del Sol, a tourism region in western Puerto Rico * Porta Littoria, the name applied from 1939 to 1946 for the town of La Thuile in the Valle d’Aosta, Italy * Porta Westfalica in Germany * Porta Nigra in Trier, Germany Convents *Porta Coeli (Moravia), in the Czech Republic, a convent from 1239 after which an asteroid is named * Porta Coeli (Puerto Rico), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Triumphal Arch Of The Lorraine, Florence
The Triumphal Arch of the Lorraine located in Piazza della Libertà in Florence, Italy, is an 18th-century, monumental triumphal arch, bypassed by the viali di Circonvallazione that skirt Florence through the space once girded by its 16th-century walls. The piazza stands at the northernmost end of Via Cavour, Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy. The arch was begun after 1737 to welcome the January 1739 arrival of the Habsburg-Lorraine dynasty; it was past this arch that the same dynasty was to leave for exile in 1859. History The arch has emanated a foreign aura since its erection in 1737–1739 by the newly arrived French architect, Jean Nicolas Jadot, to welcome the arrival (or visit) of the new ruler Francis Stephen, former Duke of Lorraine. Some sources add the efforts of Francesco Schamant of Lorraine to the design. The statuary was not added until 1744. However, many ephemeral decorations including tapestries were used along Via San Gallo to welcome the ruler in January 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Cemetery, Florence
The English Cemetery in Florence, Italy (Italian, ''Cimitero degli inglesi'', ''Cimitero Porta a' Pinti'' and ''Cimitero Protestante'') is an Evangelical cemetery located at Piazzale Donatello. Although its origins date to its foundation in 1827 by the Swiss Evangelical Reformed Church, the name "English Cemetery" results from the majority of its burials being Protestants from the British and American communities of Florence, and who gave the largest sum of money for the purchase of its land. The cemetery also holds the bodies of non-English speaking expatriates who died in Florence, among them Swiss and Scandinavians, as well as Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Orthodox Christians, among them Russians and Greeks. The cemetery is still owned by the Swiss Evangelical Reformed Church, and is open for the interment of Cremation, cremated ashes, now of all Christian denominations, but no longer for burials. History Before 1827, non-Catholics who died in Florence were buried in the Old ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piazza Beccaria
Piazza Cesare Beccaria is a square of Florence located on the viali di Circonvallazione, the boulevard along the route of the former walls of Florence. History The piazza was designed by the architect Giuseppe Poggi when Florence became briefly the Capital of Kingdom of Italy; in 1876, it was named in honour of Cesare Bonesana marchese di Beccaria. This place originally was called Piazza alla Croce due to the Porta alla Croce, still present, the former gate of the medieval walls. A number of concave neoclassical palaces were built around the square. On the square, at the bifurcation of the ''Giovine Italia'' and ''Amendola'' boulevards, is the building that hosts the ''State Archives'', where until 1977 was the ''Casa della Gioventù Italiana del Littorio'' of Florence Florence ( ; ) is the capital city of the Italy, Italian region of Tuscany. It is also the most populated city in Tuscany, with 362,353 inhabitants, and 989,460 in Metropolitan City of Florence, its metr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porta Alla Croce, Florence
The Porta alla Croce is a former gate of the Walls of Florence, locate east of the neighborhood of Santa Croce, in the Piazza Beccaria of Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy. The gate was part of the fourth set of walls around Florence built in the late 13th century. The Gate was once called ''Porta alla Croce al gorgo'' and also ''Porta Sant'Ambrogio''. It is said that the name may derive from the legend that at this location San Miniato was made a martyr. The Gate was refurbished in 1817-1818 under the reign of Grand Duke Ferdinando III of Lorraine, and in the outer lunette has a much degraded fresco depicting the Virgin and Saints by Michele Tosini. In the past, just outside this gate, was the site where official executions were performed. page 150. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
